Sentencing him to a 12 week jail term suspended for a year District Judge Hugh Edwards told him: “This is the worst case of its type I have come across.

“ The hurt and the distress to those who lost relatives at Hillsborough cannot be imagined and this came at a time the whole thing is being re-lived at Warrington.

“I am only pulling back from sending you straight to jail because of your remorse and your immediate confession to what you did.”

Jane Yates, prosecution, said the background to the case was the Hillsborough disaster in which 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives when Nottingham Forest played Liverpool in the FA Cup semi-final in April 1989.

On April 27 this year Boden made a post on Facebook after Liverpool lost 2-0 to Chelsea.

Boden stated: “Tell you what I lost every bit of respect for Liverpool and their fans after what happened last night.

“A Chelsea fan was stabbed in Liverpool by a group of fans.

“And their was a group of fans outside the Chelsea players’ hotel with loud music and fireworks trying to keep the players awake, how sad.”

He then ranted about digging up the bodies of the tragic Liverpool fans before ending his diatribe with “rot where they belong”.

The prosecutor added: “A man saw the message on Facebook and described it as derogatory and vile. Another person contacted Facebook and asked for it to be deleted.